Do you live on a earthquake fault?
By tba123
@tba123 (457)
United States
January 2, 2007 11:58am CST
Which one? Have you felt a earthquake before? How scared were you? What has been your experience with earthquakes?
We live along the New Madrid fault line. We've had minor earthquakes. It's a scary experience to feel the ground shaking under you. We try to remember to get in the doorway and cover our heads. Sometimes we just freeze tho. They say we have earthquakes here under ground all the time but we don't feel them all.
Please no 1 word answers on this post. I'm going to read and rate each one. I'll try to respond where I can, but would like to thank everyone now for responding.
1 response
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
10 Jan 07
I have never felt an earthquake in West Virginia but was amazed to find that we have had one. The government has a site with all states listed with the history of earthquakes in each state. It is truly interesting to look at the site. I was amazed at all the ifo and possible danger taht we are not being made aware of. I am still new to mylots so I cannot copy and paste teh link so I have to type it all in. Please forgive me for errors. It is located at http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov/reginal/states.php
They also have a USGS National Seismic Hazard Map that is an eye opener. The info is scary.
It can be found here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/hazmaps
